Download the latest system patches on the Internet, give the K as a system "advancement", which is a thing that everyone is often doing, but in the face of online covered HotFix and SP patches, many users are often lost. So what is hotfix, what is SP, what connection between them?
Ming clear white hotfix
HotFix is a small procedure for resolving the vulnerability or security issues for a particular system vulnerability or security issue, usually referred to as a patch. Microsoft's market share of various versions of the Windowsk making system and Office software in the development of various versions of its development will be announced in a timely manner in a safe announcement, and these announcements have a unique number. MS-, such as MS03-063, MS is Microsoft's English abbreviation, 03 represents in 2003, 063 represents the number of the security announcement, and it is the 63 63th security announcement released in 2003 in 2003. In this announcement, Microsoft will give a number, such as Q (using this number before April 2003) or KB (using this number after April 2003), this number is a number in Microsoft Knowledge Base, through The number we can find all technical articles and corresponding solutions for this issue in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (Support.Microsoft.com).
We describe the patch "Windows XP-KB823980-x86-CHS32λ.exe" for the impact wave vulnerability of the Windows XPK as a system as an example.
★ Windows XP - Product Name Description K as a system for this patch. The options that may appear include Windows 2000, Windows XP, WindowsServer 2003, and the like, which are applied to the corresponding K as a system.
★ KB823980 - KB is the first letter of Knowledge Base, which is a basic knowledge base. 823980 is the number of the corresponding explanatory article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. You can view the technical article of this patch.
★ The Identification of the X86 - processor platform, in example, X86 illustrates the processor platform for this patch applied to Intel's X86 architecture. The options that may appear are x86, AMD64, and IA64, etc.
★ CHS32λ.exe - the logo of the language version. The CHS in the example indicates that the patch is applied to the Chinese version of the Windowsk as a system. The options that may appear include CHS, ENU and INTL, which are applied to the Chinese version, English and multilingual version of the Windowsk as a Windowsk system; 32 indicates a processor platform applied to 32-bit; λ indicates that the patch is informal. , Just a beta version.
Tip: α, β, λ commonly used to represent three stages in the software testing process, α is the first phase, generally only for internal testing; β is the second phase, has eliminated most of the software in software At the location, there may be defects and vulnerabilities, which is generally only provided to a specific user group to test the use; λ is the third phase, at which time the product is quite mature, only further optimized processing in individual places It can be listed. The patch will be slightly modified on the number before the test listing is issued, which is removed from the "32λ" of the following, so the official version of the shock wave patch should be "WindowsXP-KB823980-x86-chs.exe".
Ming clearly white SP
Sp is the abbreviation of Service Pack, meaning that is patch. Microsoft's K as a system and software product vulnerability, Microsoft has to release a variety of hotfix to make repairs, but for general users, to see if their computer has installed a hotfix is a trouble, download and install Various hotfix is also very cumbersome, Microsoft began to publish SP patch packages, and all HotFix included in the SP patch package is included in the SP release date. That is, HotFix is a single patch for a certain problem, and the SP contains all HotFix patches before the SP release date. Therefore, as long as you download and install the SP patch package, you don't need to download Hotfix before installing the SP release date. The SP patch is arranged in the order of the release date, so there is SP1, SP2, SP3 ..., etc. The SP patch package for the Windowsk-making system is a stackable patch, that is, all patches in SP1 have been included in SP2, and all patches in SP2, SP1 are included in SP3, such as Windows 2000. There are SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4 patches.
However, the SP patch package of Office products is a non-stackable patch package, such as SP2 only contains all the patches in this period of time before the SP2 release date is included in the SP1 release date. Therefore, for Windows products, users can only download and install the latest SP packets. For Office products, all SP patches must be downloaded and installed, which must be noted.
Tip: Users want to understand which patches have been made, you can click "Start → Settings → Control Panel → Add / Remove Programs", in the Add / Remove Programs window, such as "Windows XXXX Patch Pack --KB 823980 "The word option is the patch you play for the system. Alternatively, click "Start → Run" Enter "regedit" in the pop-up run dialog box to open the registry editor Find the following branch hkey_local_machine\software \Microsoft\Windows nt \currentversion @ , observe the subkey under Hotfix You can see which patches have been hit by the system.
